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US 4,377,071 AGranted
Solar energy power station
AssigneeSolmat Systems, Ltd.
InventorsGad Assaf, Lucien Y. Bronicki
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AssigneeSolmat Systems, Ltd.
InventorsGad Assaf, Lucien Y. Bronicki
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A solar power station has a heat source in the form of the heat storage layer of a solar pond, a heat sink in the form of the wind-mixed layer of the pond covering the halocline interposed between the heat storage layer and the wind-mixed layer, and a power plant associated therewith. The power plant includes a boiler responsive to water from the heat storage layer for vaporizing a working fluid, a prime mover for producing work by extracting heat from vaporized working fluid, and a condenser cooled by water from a cooling pond connected to the solar pond such that only water in the wind-mixed layer is exchanged with the cooling pond. The wind-mixed layer serves to dissipate heat from the condenser and the volume of water in the cooling pond increase the heat absorption capacity of the heat sink.
In a solar energy power station of the type having a solar pond with a halocline interposed between a lower heat storage layer and an upper wind-mixed layer at the surface of the pond exposed to an ambient environment, and a power plant having a boiler responsive to water from the heat storage layer for vaporizing a working fluid, a prime mover for producing work by extracting heat from the vaporized working fluid, and a condenser for condensing the working fluid exhausted from the prime mover before returning the condensate to the boiler, the method comprising:
A solar energy power station comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.